Breast Imaging
Breast imaging is a subspecialty within diagnostic radiology devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of breast diseases. Whether with magnetic resonance imaging or with nuclear medicine or with mammograms and scans using other imaging modalities, breast imaging is a vital medical diagnostic protocol. Oakstone Medical Publishing is your authoritative source for clinical breast imaging courses and breast imaging CME (continuing medical education).
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Women of Mexican origin have specific breast cancer-related needs and should be the focus of targeted prevention and education efforts, according to a study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The study, published online this week in the journal Cancer, found that:
Among Mexican-origin women with breast cancer who were surveyed, half were diagnosed before age 50. That’s years … read more »
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Singer and breast cancer survivor Sheryl Crow has announced the opening of the Sheryl Crow Imaging Center, which she describes as “a state-of-the-art breast imaging center featuring the latest advancements in digital screening and diagnostic imaging technologies.”
Of course it would have the “latest advancements”; after all, it’s in Beverly Hills, California.
Actually, the high-end address is attributable to the fact that … read more »
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Risk management can be devilishly tricky. For example, is a better breast-cancer imaging method worth the increased radiation dosage for the patient?
A new report in the journal Radiology, being published in the October issue and in advance online today, raises that issue. “A single breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) or positron emission mammography (PEM) examination carries a lifetime risk of inducing … read more »
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Starting in January, Medicare patients will be able to receive free mammograms. This provision of the new health-care law also applies to colorectal cancer screening, among other procedures.
This could, reports Michelle Andrews for the Washington Post and Kaiser Health News, significantly increase the number of women seeking routine mammograms. She cites a study published in 2008 in the New England … read more »
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Written by: Steve Millburg, Filed in: Abdominal Imaging, Breast Imaging, Cardiac Imaging, Chest Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging, Emergency Radiology, Gastrointestinal Imaging, Interventional Radiology, Musculoskeletal Radiology, Neuroradiology, Obstetric Ultrasound, Pediatric Radiology, Practice Management
Is it the economy? Fear of radiation? Loss of health insurance by potential patients? All of the above?
Whatever the cause or causes, this has not been a good year for the high-tech imaging business. The Diagnostic Imaging news service reports that CT and MR imaging volumes are flat or declining across the United States.
The article quotes Tom Cabot, vice president … read more »
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Written by: Steve Millburg, Filed in: Breast Imaging, Diagnostic Imaging, Practice Management
A lawsuit seeks $2.5 million in damages from a Virginia medical clinic and three physicians’ assistants who worked there for not diagnosing the breast cancer that killed a woman at age 58.
The Northern Virginia Daily newspaper reports that George Pierce Sr. of Winchester, Virginia, filed suit this week against Amherst Family Practice, also of Winchester. The lawsuit says Amherst provided … read more »
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Mammography screening has been shown to be less effective for women in their 40s than for older women. Mammograms just don’t seem to be as good at detecting tumors in women that age. That’s one reason for the controversial recommendation last year by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that women of that age not get routine mammograms.
But why is … read more »
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Nanoparticle research described last week at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine could revolutionize breast-cancer treatment.
At the meeting, which was in Philadelphia, Xuanfeng Ding, MS, a graduate student at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, presented his research on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) containing iron. Ding and his colleagues injected the MWCNTs into breast tumors … read more »
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Mammography rates have plateaued in the United States, with almost 20 percent of women age 50 to 74 saying they have not received a mammogram within the past two years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC reports that for 2008 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), the overall, age-adjusted percentage of U.S. … read more »
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Radiation from radio and TV signals, amplified by the metal parts of mattresses and box springs, may cause breast cancer and melanoma—especially on the left side—among people in Western countries, two Swedish researchers suggest.
The researchers are Örjan Hallberg, MSc, of Hallberg Independent Research and Olle Johansson, PhD, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Their study, published in the journal Pathophysiology, … read more »
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